September 25

We mostly edit what we see. You see what you expect to see or look where you always look. As I entered Rosie’s Thicket today, I stumbled on a rock in my usual graceless fashion. As I twisted catlike (really more hippolike) I saw a stand of these flowers. Under the overcast sky it was like a borrowed bit of sunlight. The flowers had to have been there for days but I just never looked in that particular direction.

Then further along I was amazed to find this bit of human strewn indifference. Golf balls are hardly a common item in a thicket which specializes in dead tree limbs and rose thorns.  Your next assignment for short story class is write a narrative that explains this ball in a thicket next to a casket factory.

I watched a Snowy Egret in the pond stretched out motionless and horizontal on the surface of the water. For a moment I thought that it was dead but suddenly its head popped up. I have never seen an egret hold such a pose for so long a time. It must have been one big fish that it was hunting.

Still in the thicket, I looked out between some low branches and witnessed this Great Egret take off.

Finally leaving the thicket, a Monarch was catching an early lunch.

Rosie’s thicket was full of wonder today. The Long Thicket was not so filled. Catbirds, Robins, Crows and mosquitoes were the rule. The overlook had a Yellowlegs and several ducks and little else. Walking over to the Boardwalk, I caught  a picture of this late season dragonfly, a sort of insect Audrey Hepburn.

The Crow posse was very vocal and omnipresent today. Behind the Boardwalk one of them vented very loudly its outrage at my presence. I wasn’t very sympathetic.

Today I had very low expectations and yet I got to see a lot, things that I didn’t expect because I hadn’t looked in the right place before or things which just didn’t belong there were nonetheless there. An educational sort of walk today.

Ciao!

-Jorge

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